Every once in a while, you'll read a story similar

to the one I read this past week. It was about a man who was

arrested in New York for failure to pay child support. That isn't

so rare. What was rare was that the man was actually an FBI

informant who was posing in Soho as an Austrian Prince named Josef

Von Habsburg-Lothringen. It turned out that all of his bragging

about losing and making money at the bank he ran, the lederhosen in

which he ran around, and even his entire life, were nothing but

lies. You have to wonder why no one ever questioned it. I mean, an

Austrian Prince living in New York City? Sounds rather

preposterous, doesn't it? Yet, for several years, he managed to

fool everyone - including himself. Still, why didn't anyone even

question his story? After last week's message, you wonder what the

response would have been. Would the blind man's friends and

religious leaders simply say: "Wow, that's great!" Or, would they

ask some simple questions to see what really happened? Worse, would

they continue to react in the same fashion that they seemed to do

throughout John's entire Gospel? I encourage you to join us on

Sunday as we see reactions to what happened to the man who was

given sight. Take a few moments and read John 9 to recap last week

and see what happens next. Can't wait to see you all on Sunday!

Thomas